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Head-tracking spatial audio in tvOS 15 is awesome

Digital Trends

Apple delivers an immersive movie experience through a set of wireless headphones, putting the Apple TV 4K ahead of Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Google Chromecast.

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One of the First Oculus Rift Games is Currently One of Vision Pro’s Best

Road to VR

Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game development as developers assess how to approach Vision Pro’s lack of controllers.

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Google is bringing Apple’s best headphone features to more products

Digital Trends

Apple's automatic audio switching and head-tracking spatial audio are its coolest headphone technologies. Google plans to do the same for Android.

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5 things the rumored Pixel Buds Pro could do to catch up to AirPods

Mashable VR

If the rumors are true, Google may give wireless earbuds the old college try once again. But while Google can at least claim some parity with Apple in terms of phone quality, there’s no competition when it comes to earbuds. Do it, Google. Last year, Apple launched support for spatial audio in Apple Music.

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Rokid Max AR Glasses Review: The Complete Guide

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

We’ve seen plenty of updates to the VR/AR and mixed reality space, with new innovations from Meta and even Apple, but smart glasses technology has lagged. They aim to compete with existing solutions from other major tech brands and impending technologies rumored to be arriving from companies like Apple and Microsoft.

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

Road to VR

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.